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American City Business Journals - - searchable archives including Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal
Biz Links - - links to Minnesota regulations and requirements for businesses
BRASS Best Business Web Sites - - from Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of American Library Association
CI - Corporate Information - - company profiles and extensive research reports, includes international companies.
Corp Tech - - information on 45,000 companies, often smaller, private, not listed in Hoover's
Delphion - - Intellectual property including patents
Doing Business - - resource for comparing business regulations for many country economies
Edgar - - Securities and Exchange Information on companies
Export - - by U.S. Department of Commerce
Fed Biz Opps - - Federal Business Opportunities - replaces Commerce Business Daily
Forbes 500 - - Annual Directory of America's Leading Companies
Gateway to Associations - - links to more than 500 trade association web sites - click on directories - then associations
Knowledge@Wharton - - general business information and access to research at Wharton
Kompass - - an international directory of businesses
Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development - -
Minnesota Secretary of State Business Services - - find information and forms for filing your business name in Minnesota; search for availability of business name, views lists of dissolved corporations and nonprofits
Minnesota Trade Office - - mission is to assist Minnesota companies in exporting their services/products
SCORE - - nonprofit organization that provides free counseling and low cost seminars to entrepreneurs nationwide
Small Business Administration -
Small Business Knowledge Base -
Social Security Administration -
Standard Industrial Classification Search -
Thomas Register - - User name is rplg password is ref
US Patent and Trademark Office - - official U.S. government site with abstracts of all patents back to 1976
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